Biofuel Plan for Old Mine Site

The Cape Breton Development Corporation is hauling compost into the the old Broughton (Nova Scotia) mine site and members of the Atlantic Coastal Action Program and Cape Breton Development Corporation are building beds to plant switchgrass.

The switchgrass is to be pelleted and then turned into fuel to heat local homes.

“It’s certainly very exciting for us,” Eleanor Anderson, executive director of ACAP Cape Breton told Farm Focus.

“We want to be part of it because it’s a positive thing. It’s non-food biofuel.”

According to Farm Focus Research into the biology of the grass crop and the effects of the compost is being conducted by Cape Breton University microbiologist Paul MacDougall, who is currently working on a doctoral degree in remediation.

If the three year pilot project works, the process could be commercialised and provide a method of mine remediation that anyone could take over and operate as a business, Farm Focus says.

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